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- adjective Resembling
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Company and Coast Guard officials had cautioned that icelike hydrates, a slushy mixture of gas and water, would be one of the biggest challenges to the containment box plan, and their warnings proved accurate.
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Company and Coast Guard officials had cautioned that icelike hydrates, a slushy mixture of gas and water, would be one of the biggest challenges to the containment box plan, and their warnings proved accurate.
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The company said that natural gas surging up along with crude oil from the underground reservoir had combined with sea water to form the icelike crystals.
Gulf oil spill gushes on; Jindal wants to build up barrier islands to stop slick 2010
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Illyria is a "cold, isolating, loveless, hard place" encased in a blue, icelike atmosphere.
Free for All 'Twelfth Night' embraces vision of original director Taichman 2010
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Company and Coast Guard officials had cautioned that icelike hydrates, a slushy mixture of gas and water, would be one of the biggest challenges to the containment box plan, and their warnings proved accurate.
Gulf Oil Spill: First Attempt With Oil Containment Box FAILS, Blobs Of Tar Reach Shore 2010
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The best hope for quickly stemming the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico dimmed late Friday when icelike crystals clogged a containment box that was designed to funnel oil into barges on the water's surface.
Gulf oil spill gushes on; Jindal wants to build up barrier islands to stop slick 2010
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And they say they have learned valuable lessons from the failure of a bigger version of the containment cap last month that was clogged with icelike slush.
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After an icelike buildup thwarted a plan over the weekend to siphon off most of the leak using a huge, 100-ton containment box, a second, smaller box was lowered into the water late Tuesday near the blown-out well.
Oil Spill Hearings In Congress: Companies Blame Each Other, Refuse Responsibility 2010
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The presence of water scuttled an attempt by BP four weeks ago when icelike crystals, called hydrates, plugged the pipe.
Cap placed on well is slowing flow of oil into the gulf 2010
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Mr. Suttles said some of the oil still pouring out came from vents deliberately placed to keep icelike crystals from forming that could block the funnel.
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